Robert Bertram Serjeant, FBA (23 March 1915 – 29 April 1993) was a British scholar, traveller, and one of the leading Arabists of his generation.
He received his MA in 1935, and moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge, completing his PhD dissertation on Islamic textiles under the supervision of Professor Charles Ambrose Storey.
When the war ended, he restarted his academic career at SOAS, and in 1947 went to research the language and society of the Hadhramaut in South Arabia.
In 1964, his friend Professor AJ Arberry prompted him to return to Cambridge where he was appointed Lecturer in Islamic History.
In 1995, his widow donated his library of nearly 5,000 volumes on Islam and the Yemen as well as his unpublished manuscripts to the University of Edinburgh.